Question: facade

Answer: Workers dismantled and cleaned parts of the Parthenon’s exterior (affront, facade) during recent restoration work on the temple.

Question: mesmerized

Answer: The audience was so quiet after the curtain fell that I couldn’t tell whether they were bored or (deigned, mesmerized) by her artistry.

Question: putative

Answer: Philologists believe that many Western languages can be traced back to (putative, decorous) parent tongue known as Indo-European

Question: engenders

Answer: A government that fails to create reform (engenders, deigns) the social unrest that makes violent revolution inevitable.

Question: affronted

Answer: In my youth folly, I inadvertently (affronted, engendered) the very people whose aid I was attempting to enlist.

Question: captious

Answer: The President must always be on his toes because a careless answer to a (contrite, captious) question could land him in political hot water.

Question: facade

Answer: It wasn’t at all hard to recognize signs of extreme uneasiness beneath her (canard, facade) of buoyant optimism.

Question: ghoul

Answer: His unmistakable interest in the gruesome details of the tragedy revealed that he possessed the sensibilities of a (canard, ghoul).

Question: decorous

Answer: Her quiet speech, subdued clothes, and (decorous, desiccated) manner made it hard to believe that she was a famous rock star.

Question: “Do we have sufficient evidence at hand,” I asked, “to judge the (efficacy, cognizance) of the new method of teaching reading?”

Answer: efficacy